Tuesday, November 24, 2015

On IBM's POWER8 systems there was no way to have Update Access Keys updated till now.

After the updated POWER8 firmware, with my commits merged to upstream candidate "next" branch of powerpc-utils's activate_firmware utility last week, and with the ongoing efforts of the Electronic Service Agent team based on my work, it will soon be possible to make the update happen on the fly on provisioning a new update-access-key to the utility.

IBM Power8 customers will also be able to look at the current UAK Expiry date to make a decision as to when to update the system with a new key and verify whether date has been updated after providing the key or not.

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A proud patriot of India, born in Kanpur and brought up in Lucknow. An Asian bringing GNOME to Asia as a GNOME Asia organizing committee member and a world citizen making it a happier place to live by working on open source software. 2010 onward, a contributor to open source projects. 2012-2014, a member of the GNOME Foundation.

She has always had a strong desire for coding and going with her instincts, currently hacks on Linux Kernel and related tools under the flagship of IBM's Linux Technology Center. She left no chance in life of learning what interests her in terms of computing, be it languages, tools or algorithms. She loves puzzles and creates low-complexity, elegant solutions to any problem. Recent experiments have demonstrated her to be possessing sound public-addressing skills too.

To take a break, she prefers changing her surroundings which provides her an insight about the history, culture and discoveries pertinent to the place and its inhabitants. She has toured a lot of India, covering almost the whole of it, and some places beyond her motherland. Each new place opened to her a whole new world of knowledge and memories inexplicable.